The Lure Of Faraway Places

Author : Herb Pohl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706279

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The Lure of Faraway Places by Herb Pohl Pdf

The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl's words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada's most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl's friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb's book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There's nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It's part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

Author : Herb Pohl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770706972

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The Lure of Faraway Places by Herb Pohl Pdf

The Lure of Faraway Places is the publication canoeist Herb Pohl (1930-2006) did not live to see published. But Pohl’s words and images provide a unique portrait of Canada by one who was happiest when travelling our northern waterways alone. Austrian-born Herb Pohl died at the mouth of the Michipcoten River on July 17, 2006. He is remembered as "Canada’s most remarkable solo traveller." While mourning their loss, Herb Pohl’s friends found, to their surprise and delight, a manuscript of wilderness writings on his desk in his lakeside apartment in Burlington, Ontario. He had hoped one day to publish his work as a book. With help and commentary from best-selling canoe author and editor James Raffan, Natural Heritage is proud to present that book, Herb’s book, The Lure of Faraway Places. "There’s nothing like it in canoeing literature," says Raffan. "It’s part journal, part memoir, part wilderness philosophy and part tips and tricks of the most pragmatic kind written about parts of the country most of us will never see by the most committed and ambitious solo canoeist in Canadian history."

Author : Conor Mihell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781459702462

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The Greatest Lake by Conor Mihell Pdf

Mihell offers a compelling image of Lake Superior's Canadian shore through colorful personality sketches, adventure stories, and environmental accounts. Mihell's stories build on Lake Superior's rich and varied history and support its critical place in Canadian culture.

Author : Carol Bennett McCuaig
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781554888580

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Encountering the Wild by Carol Bennett McCuaig Pdf

Poison Ivy Acres, 250 acres of wilderness dedicated to the preservation of natural habitat, has been home to Carol Bennett McCuaig for many years. Her keen powers of observation, coupled with her insights into wildlife behaviour and her evocative writing style, have produced this captivating collection of stories that will appeal to country lovers.

Author : Anthony Dalton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770705975

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River Rough, River Smooth by Anthony Dalton Pdf

Manitoba’s Hayes River runs over six hundred kilometers from near Norway House to Hudson Bay. On its rush to the sea, the Hayes races over forty-five rapids and waterfalls as it drops down from the Precambrian Shield to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. This great waterway, the largest naturally flowing river in Manitoba, served as the highway for settlers bound for the Red River colony, ferrying their worldly goods in York boats and canoes, struggling against the mighty currents. Traditionally used for transport and hunting by the indigenous Cree, the Hayes became a major fur trade route in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, being explored by such luminaries (Pierre Radisson (1682), Henry Kelsey (1690) David Thompson (1784), Sir John Franklin (1819), and J.B. Tyrrell (1892). This is the account of the author’s invitational journey on the Hayes from Norway House to Oxford House by traditional York boat with a crew of First Nation Cree, and later, from Oxford House to York Factory by canoe in the company of other intrepid canoeists – modern-day voyageurs reliving the past.

Author : Anthony Dalton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459736566

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Polar Region Explorers 2-Book Bundle by Anthony Dalton Pdf

Presenting a special 2-book bundle of Anthony Dalton’s outstanding writing on Canada's polar regions, their history, and their greatest explorers. “Dalton does an excellent job ... a very enjoyable read.”— Bios Newsletter Includes: River Rough, River Smooth Manitoba’s Hayes River runs over 600 km, from Norway House to Hudson Bay. Traditionally used for transport and hunting by the indigenous Cree, it became a major fur trade route from the 17th to 19th centuries. This is the account of the author’s journey on the Hayes in the company of modern-day voyageurs reliving the past. Arctic Naturalist J. Dewey Soper was the last of the great pioneer naturalists in Canada, and spent many years in the Arctic, where he discovered the breeding grounds of the blue goose and charted the final unknown region of Baffin Islands coastline.

Author : Mike Nash
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770703704

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The Mountain Knows No Expert by Mike Nash Pdf

Short-listed for the 2010 Banff Mountain Book Festival Competition The Mountain Knows No Expert epitomizes George Evanoff’s philosophy towards the outdoors, while presenting an intriguing contrast with the man himself. Widely regarded as an "expert," he was a knowledgeable, experienced, and practical outdoorsman, teacher, and mentor, yet ironically lost his life in the mountains in an encounter with a grizzly. Son of a Macedonian immigrant family, George was raised in Alberta, and went on to become a mountaineer, guide, avalanche specialist, and pioneer in ecotourism in British Columbias North Rockies. The many themes embedded in Evanoff’s life experiences encompass self-propelled backcountry travel, outdoor safety, avalanche safety and rescue, ski patrol leader, exploration and discovery, outdoor ethics, and public involvement with respect to land and resource use. George Evanoff was honoured in several tangible ways after his death, culminating in the naming of Evanoff Provincial Park in the Hart Ranges of the Rockies.

Author : Daniel E. Bender,Simone Cinotto
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781487539542

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Food Mobilities by Daniel E. Bender,Simone Cinotto Pdf

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating case studies, including explorations of Italian food in colonial Ethiopia, traditional Cornish pasties in Mexico, migrant community gardeners in Toronto, and beer all around the world. In exploring the origins of the contemporary global food system and how we cook and eat today, Food Mobilities uncovers the local and global circulation of food, ingredients, cooks, commodities, labour, and knowledge.

Author : Jan Goldberg
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780071454605

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Careers for Courageous People & Other Adventurous Types by Jan Goldberg Pdf

CAREERS FOR YOU IS THE ONLY CAREER SERIES DESIGNED EXPRESSLY TO TURN PASSIONS INTO PAYCHECKS! The inspiring Careers for You series encourages career explorers to examine the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. Includes: The latest information on training and education Tips on transforming hobbies into job skills Stories of success from each field Expert advice on finding and getting the job Advice on competing in hot job markets

Author : Norman Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1908308753

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The Lure of Far-Away Places by Norman Freeman Pdf

This amusing and often moving book consists of 59 short tales about real-life events at sea.

Author : Julie K. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313003417

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The Significance of the Printed Word in Early America by Julie K. Williams Pdf

The American press played a significant role in the transference of European civilization to America and in the shaping of American society. Settlement entrepreneurs used the press to persuade Europeans to come to America. Immigrants brought religious tracts with them to spread Puritanism and other doctrines to Native Americans and the white population. The colonists used the press to openly debate issues, print advertisements for business, and as a source of entertainment. But what did the colonists actually think about the press? The author has gathered information from primary sources to explore this question. Diaries and journals reveal how the colonists valued local news, often preferring American news to European news. This concentrated focus upon colonial attitudes and thoughts toward the press covers the period of colonial settlement from the 1500s through 1765. This book will appeal to scholars and students of American history and communication history. Primary documents expressing the colonists' thoughts will also be of interest to scholars and students of American thought, American philosophy, and early American literature and writing.

Author : Robert Frezza
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345387244

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Fire in a Faraway Place by Robert Frezza Pdf

Six years after Lt.-Colonel Anton Vereshcagin's 1st Battalion, 35th Imperial Infantry Regiment (Rifle) quelled the revolt that marooned it on Suid-Africa, another fleet appears in the skies: Earth has not forgtten Suid-Afrika, nor has the Japanese company that once ran the planet. The fleet is to reintroduce what the Japanese think of as order--ever higher production norms for the metals that make interstellar flight possible, and compelled obedience to the company's rules. There are no Caucasians among the new forces, and even the soldiers of the Manchurian regiment are led by the Japanese. Despite Lt.-Col. Vereschagin's efforts to prevent bloodshed, war eventually begins, and he sides with the colonists. Vereschagin realizes that Tokyo cannot overlook the loss of a planet to rebellion; it has an interstellar empire to protect. No, Tokyo must be convinced that further attacks are dangerous--and to do that, Vereschagin has a plan....

Author : Eric Simpson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445615523

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Wish You Were Still Here by Eric Simpson Pdf

A nostalgic look back at the rise and decline of the Scottish seaside holiday.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063064418

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Tompkins County Home & Garden by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Raffan
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443401395

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Emperor Of The North by James Raffan Pdf

The adventure-filled story of the legendary Hudson’s Bay Company is inextricably linked to the formation of a Canadian nation stretching from sea to sea to sea. In an absorbing and lively new book on The Bay, James Raffan explores the forces that moulded a man, a company and a country. The histories of Sir George Simpson and the HBC in the golden years of the 19th century are in many ways one history, for Simpson’s professional acumen and personal ambitions propelled a failing business to a position of great wealth and political power. At its height, the HBC trading territory covered an astonishing one-twelfth of the world’s surface. Raffan captures the many contradictions of the larger-than-life man at its centre: a brilliant manager who kept an iron grip on his fur forts from east to west, ensuring British power across the land; a pompous dandy who was most at home in a voyageur-paddled canoe; a man ashamed of his illegitimate birth but who went on to sire 13 children with eight different women, only one of whom was his wife; a master businessman who laid the foundations for the single greatest business enterprise of its day. Emperor of the North is the vibrant tale of a man who shaped much more than a fur-trading company—he launched an empire of ideas that led to the creation of a country. Meticulously researched, highly readable and wonderfully illuminated by maps and archival photographs, Emperor of the North is a delight for history buffs, armchair adventurers and biography fans alike.